Friday, 9 February 2018

This country’s most
significant and traumatic conflict, crucial in shaping the nation, was
the 1863–64 war between Māori and British troops in the Waikato.

In his ground-breaking, monumental work The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 1800–2000, historian Vincent O’Malley explores Māori and Pākehā relationships from first contact to settlement and government apology.

He discusses his research with “artivist” Moana Maniapoto, musician and writer for e-Tangata.

Friday, 19 January 2018

It was a great honour to have been announced as the 2017
winner of the Mary Boyd Prize at the New Zealand Historical Association’s
conference in Auckland in December.

Named in
memory of the Pacific historian Mary Beatrice Boyd (1921–2010), this award is
for the best article on any aspect of
New Zealand history published in a refereed journal. The prize covered
articles published between April 2015 and April 2017.

My winning
article, ‘“Recording the Incident with a Monument”: The Waikato War in
Historical Memory’, was published in the open-access Journal of New Zealand Studies in 2015.

The article charts changing perceptions of the Waikato War
in national memory and consciousness and formed the basis for a chapter on this
topic in my subsequent book The Great War
for New Zealand.